Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The Republican National Committee and Trump campaign plan to deploy tens of thousands of volunteers and attorneys to monitor and challenge voting processes in battleground states, including Wisconsin — an effort rooted in the former president’s false… Continue reading
There’s a great new student note at the intersection of election law and remedies, authored by Delaney Herndon, in the Harvard Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Today, voting rights plaintiffs largely seek injunctive relief.1 This wasn’t always… Continue reading
LAT:
Alex Lopez doesn’t contest that Joe Biden was elected president in 2020.
His concern lies with how those results came to be.
“By the numbers? He absolutely won it. Ethically? Probably not,” said the 38-year-old Anaheim resident, who works… Continue reading
With so much attention focused on RFK Jr., Cornell West, etc., don’t sleep on this news, via Ballot Access news.
If ever there was an election year to move to ranked choice voting for President so that third party… Continue reading
USA Today:
In Georgia, in particular, a series of election rules passed over the last three years threaten to overburden election officials and, in some cases, issue criminal penalties against them. New election measures passed by the Republican-led state… Continue reading
During last week’s arguments on this issue, the Special Counsel took the position that there are a significant number of limitations on potential criminal prosecutions of ex-Presidents. These limitations would provide ex-Presidents with functional immunity, when they apply. They are… Continue reading
Very interesting report from Paul Kane of the Washington Post of a day-long meeting of 7 former Republican and six former Democratic members of Congress:
“Their ideas ranged from a major rethinking of how the body works to symbolic changes… Continue reading
USA Today reports. The article begins: “The Republican National Committee and its lawyers are going state to state seeking to influence what laws and procedures will govern the November election.” I think it’s only fair to point out, which the… Continue reading
Business Insider confirms what I suspected:
Now, Manhattan prosecutors now say an old, rarely used section of the state election law is their favorite on the menu of potential underlying crimes.
“As the court is aware, falsifying business records in… Continue reading
POLITICO:
“On Tuesday, the Trump campaign sent a letter to pro-Trump, external organizations asking them to attend an “entirely off-the-record, private,” and “invite-only” meeting with senior campaign officials, according to a copy of the letter obtained by POLITICO. The… Continue reading
A new Common Ground Democracy essay, drawing upon Rick Pildes’s work, to discuss why it’s wrong to rely solely on a hope for increased civic virtue, among either politicians or voters, to protect democracy from authoritarianism. Instead, institutional reforms… Continue reading